Understand Quotes

I don't want to be understood because if people understand me, they get tired of me.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

Yes, it gets better, but I also understand that saying to a 15-year-old that, 'Oh, don't worry, just wait a year', is like saying 'Wait a lifetime', but every single person has the right to go to school and not be afraid.

I've made apologies to people I needed to, but I can't apologise to people I don't know for things they don't understand.

As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.

The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.

I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.

I really loved Twin Peaks. When I saw the two-hour pilot, they screened it in the big theatre. I said, I don't know what is going to happen. I'm in this and I don't understand it. This is never going to sell. Who's going to watch this thing?

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

Our goal should be to understand our differences.

I understand that, but this disc shows the type of music that I've always liked and wanted to make.

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.

I understand those who don't like me.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.

Therefore, every country has to understand that fighting against international terrorism is not for the sake of the United States, but for the sake of themselves, and, to a larger extent, in the name of stability of international relations.

I suppose being his twin made me understand Robin that much more easily.

One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life.

They say, once you have a child, your heart is forever outside your body. I totally understand that now.

I called the doctor, during writing the book, the psychiatrist who treated me at that time, Dr. Jackson. And I said, Dr. Jackson, whole pieces are missing. I don't understand what happened to me.

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.

When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.

In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there. But they couldn't understand why some pop star from London would want to be there.

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.